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The Cuban Revolution

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Primary Sources

Fulgencio Batista, Cuba Betrayed, (1962)

Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet, My Life, (2006)

Earl E.T. Smith, The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution, (1962)

Che Guevara, Diary of a Combatant, (2013)

Andrei Gromyko, Memoirs, (1989)

Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, (1970)

Cordell Hull, The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, Volumes I & II, (1948)

Harry Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions (1955)

Harry Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial and Hope (1956)

Dwight Eisenhower, Waging Peace: The White House Years, A Personal Account 1956-1961, (1965)

Secondary Sources

Ada Ferrer, An American History of Cuba, (2021)

Peter G. Bourne, Fidel: A Biography of Fidel Castro, (1986)

Marshall Eakin, The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures, (2007)

John Charles Chasteen, Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, (2006)

Bryce Wood, The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy, (1961)

Theodore Draper, Castro's Revolution; Myths and Realities, (1962)

Samuel Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered, (2006)

William Ratliff, editor, The Selling of Fidel Castro: The Media and the Cuban Revolution, (1987)

Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America, (1984)

Thomas Skidmore, Peter Smith, James Green, Modern Latin America: Eighth Edition, (2014)

Footnotes

[1] Ferrer, p. 293-8, Batista, ch. 5, Bourne, p. 134-8

[2] Ferrer, p. 293-8, Bourne, 134-8, Guevara, p. 28, Batista, ch. 5

[3] Batista, ch. 5, Ferrer, p. 299-305

[4] Eakin, p. 308-11, Ratliff, p. 1-3

[5] Ferrer, p. 299-305

[6] Ferrer, p. 299-305, Batista, ch. 5

[7] Ferrer, p. 299-305

[8] Ratliff, p. 1-3

[9] Smith, 117-21

[10] Smith, p. 5-7, 115

[11] Ferrer, p. 305-11, Batista, ch. 7

[12] Batista, ch. 7

[13] Smith, p. 10-2, 55-7, Ferrer, p. 305-11

[14] Smith, p. 17-21, 27-8

[15] Batista, ch. 8, Smith, p. 31-3

[16] Ferrer, p. 305-11, Smith, p. 37-8, 58-61, 158-60

[17] Smith, p. 71-6

[18] Smith, 63-5, 68

[19] Smith, p. 84-6, 86-92, 96-100, Batista, ch. 8, Eisenhower, p. 520-1

[20] Smith, 82-3, 86-92, 96-100

[21] Ferrer, p. 305-11, Smith, 76-7, Draper, 14-5

[22] Smith, p. 109-14, 140-8

[23] Smith, 152-7

[24] Batista, ch. 3

[25] Eisenhower, 520-1, Smith, 158-60

[26] Batista, ch. 15, Smith, 163-76

[27] Smith, 183-7

[28] Ferrer, p. 315-20, Smith, 187-9

[29] Eisenhower, 521-3

[30] Eisenhower, 521-3

[31] Ferrer, 320-3

[32] Smith, 189-99

[33] Ferrer, 323-6

[34] Eisenhower, 523-5, Ferrer, 326-8

[35] Nixon, 351-2

[36] Eisenhower, 523

[37] Ferrer, 328-33

[38] Ferrer, 335-42

[39] Kruschev, 540-4, Ferrer, 335-9

[40] Eisenhower, 531-5

[41] Ferrer, 346-50

[42] Eisenhower, 536-9

[43] Ferrer, 346-50

[44] Schlesinger, 81

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